Friday, March 20, 2009

Millennials and Their Digital Dirt

Today, I am exhausted. I think that it has something to do with the time change (this is my first week back after spring break). Besides my exhaustion, we had three wonderful "Digital Dirt" presentations in class today. Career services always sponsors these presentations and I think they are very informative for our students.

The following topics always emerge in the discussion portion of the presentation:a) employers do not have to right to look at our facebook profilesb) what we do in our private lives is our business

These topics emerged today, but one student commented, "If we put it [the content] up there [on facebook], we should take responsibility for it [the content]." The career services representative was floored by the student's comment and I was excited that this freshman student had such a strong professional stance at this point of her academic career.

I administer a pre-test and post-test to gauge the students attitudes/perceptions of their facebook/myspace profiles. At this point, I think we have over 500 surveys. I cannot wait to run the stats!

2 comments:

This part:a) employers do not have to right to look at our facebook profilesb) what we do in our private lives is our businessreally amazes me - so naive! It's encouraging to hear about the freshman in your class who acknowledges reality.

Dr. Jennifer T. Edwards

Associate Professor of Communication Studies at a University in Texas; Executive Director of the Texas Social Media Research Institute, & Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP): Texas Fellow - drjtedwards@gmail.com; 254-307-1375